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. -- with the longest-running war in history, afghanistan. it is not clear how the new timetable will change things. speaking on monday after meetings with president obama, afghan president karzai said afghanistan would be better off without foreign troops. >> the main question is that whether by the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan will the situation become insecure. by no means for it is the other way around rid afghanistan will be to secure a better place. we should remove this idea from our mind that if there are no foreign troops in our country will not be able to protect the country. that is wrong. >> we're joined now by author and journalist nick turse, managing editor of tomdispatch.com british his most recent book is, "kill anything that moves: the real american war in vietnam." the title is taken from an order given to the u.s. forces who slaughtered more than 500 vietnamese civilians in the notorious my lai massacre of 1968. but drawing on interviews in vietnam and a trove of previously unknown u.s. government document
. -- with the longest-running war in history, afghanistan. it is not clear how the new timetable will change things. speaking on monday after meetings with president obama, afghan president karzai said afghanistan would be better off without foreign troops. >> the main question is that whether by the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan will the situation become insecure. by no means for it is the other way around rid afghanistan will be to secure a better place. we should remove...
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but you never mentioned the wars in iraq or afghanistan by name. there was also no mention about the secret drone war that has vastly expanded under president obama. on the same day he gave his inaugural address, a u.s. drone strike killed three people in yemen east of the capital. also on monday, president obama officially nominated john brennan to the director of the cia, succeeding retired general david petraeus, who resigned. nickname the assassination czar, brennan was the first obama administration official to publicly confirm drone attacks overseas and to defend their legality. four years ago, john brennan was rumored pick for the cia job when obama was first elected but was forced to withdraw from consideration amid protests over his role at the cia under the bush in ministration. obama also officially nominated chuck hagel to head defense and john kerry to become secretary of state on monday. joining us here in park city, utah, is jeremy scahill, national security correspondent for the nation magazine. he is featured in and co-wrote the ne
but you never mentioned the wars in iraq or afghanistan by name. there was also no mention about the secret drone war that has vastly expanded under president obama. on the same day he gave his inaugural address, a u.s. drone strike killed three people in yemen east of the capital. also on monday, president obama officially nominated john brennan to the director of the cia, succeeding retired general david petraeus, who resigned. nickname the assassination czar, brennan was the first obama...
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military help him without charge in afghanistan and at guantanamo for more than six years. the al jazeera cameraman was arrested in pakistan in december 2001 while traveling to afghanistan on a work assignment. he was then transferred u.s. custody. first held a u.s. presence in kandahar and bagram, then six months later, transferred to guantanamo. at guantanamo, he was repeatedly beaten and tortured in both afghanistan and in guantanamo. he was attacked by dogs, who did, hung from the ceiling, prevented from sleeping for days. interrogators question him more than 100 times. and number of those interrogations' included questions about who his bosses were al jazeera. in january 2007, sami al-hajj began a hunger strike to protest. he continued for 438 days until his release in may 2008. a few weeks ago when "democracy now!" was in doha to cover the u.n. climate change talks, we went over to al jazeera's headquarters so that i could sit down with sami al-hajj in person. sami al-hajj heads the al jazeera human rights and public liberties desk, a new position that they have creat
military help him without charge in afghanistan and at guantanamo for more than six years. the al jazeera cameraman was arrested in pakistan in december 2001 while traveling to afghanistan on a work assignment. he was then transferred u.s. custody. first held a u.s. presence in kandahar and bagram, then six months later, transferred to guantanamo. at guantanamo, he was repeatedly beaten and tortured in both afghanistan and in guantanamo. he was attacked by dogs, who did, hung from the ceiling,...
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role in afghanistan. it begins with the voice of baena australian journalist mark davis. >> he woke up late, of course, knocking on the door of julien. wake up. the normal things. >> i will be two minutes. >> 14 pages in the "the guardian closed with this morning. -- "the guardian" this morning. >> there are 10 media trucks out there. >> yes. it will be a good outcome. >> he walked out that door. by the time he had made this 50- yard walk, he was a rock star, one of the most famous guys on the planet. >> he walks into the club where he delivers this news conference. alex gibney, take it from there. >> an extraordinary moment. this guy that few people had ever heard of walks in and presides over this tremendous release of documents which revealed the truth about the afghan war, truths that we did not know about civilian casualties, an assassination squad. it was a lifting of the curtain of what was happening in afghanistan which will not been told by our government. >> in the film, you focus on that moment
role in afghanistan. it begins with the voice of baena australian journalist mark davis. >> he woke up late, of course, knocking on the door of julien. wake up. the normal things. >> i will be two minutes. >> 14 pages in the "the guardian closed with this morning. -- "the guardian" this morning. >> there are 10 media trucks out there. >> yes. it will be a good outcome. >> he walked out that door. by the time he had made this 50- yard walk, he...
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-led nato raid in afghanistan. the victims reportedly died as they tried to collect the bodies of taliban fighters who have been killed in a firefight with u.s. troops around a mosque. it is not clear what caused the explosion as the fighters had already been shot dead when the blast occurred. estimates of the civilian death toll stand between seven and 16. the latest violence comes days after president obama announced plans to speed up the transfer of formal military control to afghan forces. appearing with afghan president karzai at the white house friday, obama said a transition to afghan military leadership of combat missions will take place in the spring instead of summer. >> as afghan forces take the lead and as president karzai announces the final phase of the transition, coalition forces will move to a support role this spring. president karzai and i also discuss the nature of our security cooperation after 2014. our teams continue to work toward a secure the agreement and will be guided by our respect for
-led nato raid in afghanistan. the victims reportedly died as they tried to collect the bodies of taliban fighters who have been killed in a firefight with u.s. troops around a mosque. it is not clear what caused the explosion as the fighters had already been shot dead when the blast occurred. estimates of the civilian death toll stand between seven and 16. the latest violence comes days after president obama announced plans to speed up the transfer of formal military control to afghan forces....
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drone operations outside afghanistan. it is a key location for the united states and its war on terror, both in africa and yemen -- which is just across the water. >> ephraim savitt, can you tell us about your client mohamed yusuf, what you know about how he as been treated since he has been in u.s. custody? >> good morning. i came across the case because i was appointed by the court and eastern district of new york to represent this particular defendant. the two other detainees also received lawyers that were appointed by the court. at present, now that we're under the court's jurisdiction, he is being treated humanely, being treated well. but that was not always the case. in fact, he was arrested with his co-defendants and others in djibouti by djibouti authorities. they were not treated with kid gloves. let's put it that way. initially. and some point, american authorities got involved in interrogating these three men. so things got better for them now that we're no longer under the radar. >> tell us to your client moh
drone operations outside afghanistan. it is a key location for the united states and its war on terror, both in africa and yemen -- which is just across the water. >> ephraim savitt, can you tell us about your client mohamed yusuf, what you know about how he as been treated since he has been in u.s. custody? >> good morning. i came across the case because i was appointed by the court and eastern district of new york to represent this particular defendant. the two other detainees...
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it from ending the war in iraq to winding down the war in afghanistan, from our response to natural disasters around the world like haiti and the tsunami in japan to the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the callous crisis in between, day and night. >> it replaces jack lew who has been appointed to take over from timothy geithner are at the treasury. teachers at a seattle area high school winning support locally and nationwide for the arab boycott of a standardized test used in teacher evaluations. teachers at garfield high school voted to stop administering map tests, calling them wasteful and unfairly used to grow their performance. teachers and other seattle schools have pledged their support for the boycott, and both the national education association and the american federation of teachers, have also given their endorsement. observers say the garfield boycott could mark a significant revolt to date against the obama administration's embrace of standardized testing. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. and d
it from ending the war in iraq to winding down the war in afghanistan, from our response to natural disasters around the world like haiti and the tsunami in japan to the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the callous crisis in between, day and night. >> it replaces jack lew who has been appointed to take over from timothy geithner are at the treasury. teachers at a seattle area high school winning support locally and nationwide for the arab boycott of a standardized test used in teacher...
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i do think for the kind of unique challenges the next two years, withdrawn from afghanistan, paring down the military budget, and getting a sense -- sensible republican iran, these are upcoming challenges for our country. i think hegel is pretty well suited to those, especially on paring down the defense budget. i'm not so sure liberal democrat would be able to work republican members of congress to do with those issues the same way. it is entirely possible and ashton carter or michele floor name. >> who is michele flournoy? the current no. 3 and ashton carter is the current no. 2. there also named as likely candidates for the post. it is entirely possible both of done the job. the politics of the job, the politics of the defense budget what they are, i think it would be politically helpful to have a conservative republican in that role. >> thank you for being with us, ali gharib, senior editor for open zion, a middle east blog. we will have a link on democracynow.org. when we come back, we go to the rate case in steubenville, ohio, or 16-year-old woman was gang raped by members of the l
i do think for the kind of unique challenges the next two years, withdrawn from afghanistan, paring down the military budget, and getting a sense -- sensible republican iran, these are upcoming challenges for our country. i think hegel is pretty well suited to those, especially on paring down the defense budget. i'm not so sure liberal democrat would be able to work republican members of congress to do with those issues the same way. it is entirely possible and ashton carter or michele floor...
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report says the torture prisoners in afghanistan is not only continuing, that may be on the rise. investigators say they've uncovered ongoing abuses in afghan prisons including the beating of detainees with cables and hanging them by their wrists. more than half of prisoners interviewed said they had been tortured, higher than the previous rate of 24% in 2011. the report also cites an unnamed afghan official confirming prisoners are being held as a pretension sides to avoid international scrutiny. last week, the u.s. military said it had halted the transfer detainees to some afghan prisons over ongoing torture. the israeli military has forced -- forcibly removed another palestinian protest encampment in the path of the expanding settlement. palestinian residents of the village had set up three tents and a mobil building on friday to stop israel from seizing parts of their land. the demonstrators named their site bab al-karama. the activists said they tore up the order in the faces of its release soldiers. the in camera was raided and dismantle by its release soldiers earlier today
report says the torture prisoners in afghanistan is not only continuing, that may be on the rise. investigators say they've uncovered ongoing abuses in afghan prisons including the beating of detainees with cables and hanging them by their wrists. more than half of prisoners interviewed said they had been tortured, higher than the previous rate of 24% in 2011. the report also cites an unnamed afghan official confirming prisoners are being held as a pretension sides to avoid international...
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lawyers say bales, who served four tours in iraq and afghanistan, may have suffered a traumatic brain injury and ptsd. attorney john henry browne discussed the mental state of john bales -- robert bales. >> he is a strong person but i think he would agree with what i said, he feels abandoned by the army. >> a u.s. marine is facing a likely demotion in rank after pleading guilty to urinating on the corpse of a man in afghanistan. staff sergeant edward deptola was charged after video emerged in july 2011 showing u.s. soldiers urinating on dead afghans. deptola admitted he failed to supervise other marines, saying -- "i was in a position to stop it and i did not." u.s. house republicans are continuing their fight to preserve the 1996 defense of marriage act or doma, which denies federal recognition of gay marriage. the obama administration refusing to enforce it after deeming it unconstitutional but republicans are seeking to keep it in effect through the courts. the huffington post is reporting republicans have allocated nearly $3 million in tax funds for their legal costs to challenge
lawyers say bales, who served four tours in iraq and afghanistan, may have suffered a traumatic brain injury and ptsd. attorney john henry browne discussed the mental state of john bales -- robert bales. >> he is a strong person but i think he would agree with what i said, he feels abandoned by the army. >> a u.s. marine is facing a likely demotion in rank after pleading guilty to urinating on the corpse of a man in afghanistan. staff sergeant edward deptola was charged after video...
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turner has reportedly spent five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. late internet freedom activist aaron swartz was laid to rest on tuesday at a funeral near chicago. he killed themself on friday, weeks before he was to go on trial for downloading millions of articles provided by the nonprofit research service jstor. he was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters of shorts called excessively harsh. speaking to mourners, his father robert continued to blame prosecutors for his son's death, saying he was "killed by the government." in response to the family, the husband of the prosecutor carmen ortiz has publicly criticized them on twitter, clamming shorts was offered a six-month plea deal. the husband, and ibm executive, has since deleted his twitter profile. in washington, democratic congressmember zoe lofgren of california has introduced a measure in honor of aaron swartz. logfren's bill that aaron's law would modify the computer fraud and abuse act to omit terms of service breaches. in a statement, lofgren said -- more than a thousand school
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i don't he mentioned the word afghanistan, which is interesting. i think if he wanted to make a hallmark, and he could very well have said, i got this out of iraq and now getting us out of afghanistan, and something concrete to say that we're moving away from perpetual war. in the meantime, looks like we're getting more into the quagmire, not just with the current drone strikes in pakistan and somalia, but mali is very dangerous, and all of northern africa. the fact that he did not mention gun-control is astonishing. this seems where he was honest and a lot of his political capital and called for a grass- roots uprising to counter the power of the nra. yet we have the attention of the entire nation watching to not say, we need people to get behind this effort to really secure our children and our communities by getting assault weapons off our streets or something he could of said, he did not use this opportunity. i find that very disturbing in terms of how much energy is going to put into the programs that he supposedly is supporting. >> clarence l
i don't he mentioned the word afghanistan, which is interesting. i think if he wanted to make a hallmark, and he could very well have said, i got this out of iraq and now getting us out of afghanistan, and something concrete to say that we're moving away from perpetual war. in the meantime, looks like we're getting more into the quagmire, not just with the current drone strikes in pakistan and somalia, but mali is very dangerous, and all of northern africa. the fact that he did not mention...
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he made it very clear that he is going to take troops and so forth out of afghanistan and q, but he is committing on a full spectrum dominance to the containment of china. it does not end. i think we will see him making alliances and treaties with countries around the world. he is already expanding the bush version of security. he has not gone back on any of the civil liberties laws. >> he has expanded it. we were so critical of bush for doing surveillance of people without judicial review. obama is targeting and killing people without judicial review. we are acting as judge, jury and executioner now. >> this is obama on the secret drone and more. >> it has to be a target bed is authorized by our laws. it has to be serious and on speculative threat. it has to be a situation -- not speculative threat. it has to be a situation where we cannot capture. our preference is always to capture because we can gather intelligence. but the most dangerous targets operate in remote regions and it is difficult to capture them. we have to make sure that in whatever operations we conduct, we are very c
he made it very clear that he is going to take troops and so forth out of afghanistan and q, but he is committing on a full spectrum dominance to the containment of china. it does not end. i think we will see him making alliances and treaties with countries around the world. he is already expanding the bush version of security. he has not gone back on any of the civil liberties laws. >> he has expanded it. we were so critical of bush for doing surveillance of people without judicial...
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. >> this happens in america as well in that clip he said the americans have drone attacks in afghanistan, killed seven people and a wedding which nobody knows if the suspect person was killed as well. in the war of the 21st century, it is a war we need intelligence to get to a needle in a haystack, that means in the form of the terrorist that you're looking for him. intelligence people want to get into that specific person at a certain date and time and place. this is a very difficult war to maintain. america is doing it now. you just heard in your news they're going to do drones over north africa and civilians. i think you have to think strategically where you want to lead with this conflict. >> we will continue this discussion with dror moreh, is really filmmaker, director of the oscar documented documentary, "the gatekeepers." we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> we are talking about the hijacking of the 300 bus. let's go to a clip it killing of two palestinian hijac
. >> this happens in america as well in that clip he said the americans have drone attacks in afghanistan, killed seven people and a wedding which nobody knows if the suspect person was killed as well. in the war of the 21st century, it is a war we need intelligence to get to a needle in a haystack, that means in the form of the terrorist that you're looking for him. intelligence people want to get into that specific person at a certain date and time and place. this is a very difficult...
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. >> i was asked to perform today from iraq and and afghanistan veterans. >> what about these soldiers who are about to return their medals? i know it is not easy for many of them or their families. >> i think there is nothing more courageous than taste soldier who stands up against an unjust war. that is what they're doing. courageous soldiers. >> and the role of music and art in resistance? >> what music can do is help steel the backbone in the midst of a struggle, put wind in the cells of social justice movement. i have been here the last three days playing songs for a variety of causes, but none more important than today. >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> singing woody guthrie's song, live at a concert organized here in chicago in marking his centennial, also marking the protest at the nato summit. blanketse from her with a gun in each hand said come all of you cowboys fight for your land ♪ >> a rare 1945 video recording of woody guthrie known as the dustbowl troubadour. he became a maj
. >> i was asked to perform today from iraq and and afghanistan veterans. >> what about these soldiers who are about to return their medals? i know it is not easy for many of them or their families. >> i think there is nothing more courageous than taste soldier who stands up against an unjust war. that is what they're doing. courageous soldiers. >> and the role of music and art in resistance? >> what music can do is help steel the backbone in the midst of a...
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continues to hold prisoners without charge or trial at afghanistan's bagram prison. the united nations says it has received permission from syria to expand efforts to feed the estimated 2.5 million people suffering from hunger during syria's international -- internal crisis. on wednesday, the world food program executive director says collaboration with local partners could mean the delivery of aid to an additional 1 million syrians. >> last week we were given a list of 110 additional ngo's that we can work with now. 110. we have assessed the operational capacity of about 110, and we have identified 44 ngo's on that list that will give us the ability to scale up to another 1 million persons. >> these really press minister netanyahu has taken what is being described as a subtle dig at president obama following widespread reports of arrest -- rift between the two. it was recently reported obama chided his government and private apparently saying -- visiting an israeli army base, netanyahu appeared to respond. >> i think everyone understands that only israeli citizens w
continues to hold prisoners without charge or trial at afghanistan's bagram prison. the united nations says it has received permission from syria to expand efforts to feed the estimated 2.5 million people suffering from hunger during syria's international -- internal crisis. on wednesday, the world food program executive director says collaboration with local partners could mean the delivery of aid to an additional 1 million syrians. >> last week we were given a list of 110 additional...
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troops levels in afghanistan after the withdrawal deadline of 2014. obama administration officials have recently floated troop numbers ranging from zero to 20,000 after combat operations formally come to an end. karzai kicked off his visit on wednesday by meeting a group of senators. >> the trip has just begun and the meeting over today's the ledge to the days. [indiscernible] afghan president karzai in washington. in india, the identity of the woman who died after being gang raped and mutilated with a metal bar and a moving bus has been publicly revealed. she was 23 years old when she succumbed to her injuries and after nearly two weeks in hospital last month. the five suspects in her rape and murder appeared in court today for a second time. a member of their defense team is drawing ire after also saying he is never heard of a "respected lady being raped in india." in an interview with bloomberg news, he said -- he blamed the attack on the victim and her male companion, who was also injured, the man was "wholly responsible because the unmarried pair
troops levels in afghanistan after the withdrawal deadline of 2014. obama administration officials have recently floated troop numbers ranging from zero to 20,000 after combat operations formally come to an end. karzai kicked off his visit on wednesday by meeting a group of senators. >> the trip has just begun and the meeting over today's the ledge to the days. [indiscernible] afghan president karzai in washington. in india, the identity of the woman who died after being gang raped and...
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it is a small segment of the political class, really, that dragged us into war in iraq and afghanistan, and that is another big part of the deficit. so the cost is falling on the wrong group, in my opinion. >> some critics have said it would have been better to go off the fiscal cliff. first of all, was there a cliff? would you agree with that criticism? >> i do agree it would have been better to go off the cliff, in large part because it really was not a cliff. the term fiscal cliff was coined by ben bernanke. ben bernanke did not want us or did not want the country to get into the situation of higher taxes -- in large part, i think that would have made his job even harder because the higher taxes would have flowed -- slowed down the economy and there would have been even more pressure on the fed to engage in monetary easing, quantitative easing as it is called. the fed really cannot do all of that much more than it is doing. interest rates are at historic lows. bernanke did not want tax increases, so he was trying to control or affect what was going to be happening on the fiscal side
it is a small segment of the political class, really, that dragged us into war in iraq and afghanistan, and that is another big part of the deficit. so the cost is falling on the wrong group, in my opinion. >> some critics have said it would have been better to go off the fiscal cliff. first of all, was there a cliff? would you agree with that criticism? >> i do agree it would have been better to go off the cliff, in large part because it really was not a cliff. the term fiscal...
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in afghanistan, life was defined by the war. everything revolved around it. in yemen, there was no word -- at least not officially. the strikes seem to come out of the blue. and most yemenis were going about life as usual. it was difficult to know where to start. the yemeni government claimed responsibility for the strikes, saying they killed dozens of kaukauna operatives. it was unclear who the targets really were. responsible.ven possibl >> an excerpt of "dirty wars: the world as a battlefield." that was jeremy scahill who co- wrote this documentary with their broker. use this as an example of how a film incubates and how remarkable this film is. this week there have been as many drone strikes and as many days, on inauguration day itself, u.s. drone attacks, five. this is what he takes on along with jsoc. >> the producers of this took this found to meet early on in said, we want to do this. so many of us know jeremy's work. his a from a nomina he is a phenomenal reporter. we funded them very early on to go and find the story and understand how jeremy himsel
in afghanistan, life was defined by the war. everything revolved around it. in yemen, there was no word -- at least not officially. the strikes seem to come out of the blue. and most yemenis were going about life as usual. it was difficult to know where to start. the yemeni government claimed responsibility for the strikes, saying they killed dozens of kaukauna operatives. it was unclear who the targets really were. responsible.ven possibl >> an excerpt of "dirty wars: the world as a...
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accelerating the bombings before its capacity to carry them out is diminished with a planned withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of next year. according to a tally by the website long war journal, u.s. drones have already killed as many as 11 civilians and 30 suspected militants in the first 10 days of the year. if confirmed, that would mean a death ratio of more than one civilian for every three suspected militants. it would also already exceed the official civilian death toll for 2012, though that number is likely to small because u.s. policy deems all adult males as militants unless contrary evidence emerges after their deaths. according to the washington post, the future stationing of cia bases that launch the drone strikes will be among the topics discussed by the white house and afghan president karzai during karzai's current visit to washington. the obama administration has reportedly set its expectations low for passage of a new assault weapons ban in congress despite a change in national consciousness in the aftermath of last month's newtown shooting massacre. the new york times is reporting
accelerating the bombings before its capacity to carry them out is diminished with a planned withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of next year. according to a tally by the website long war journal, u.s. drones have already killed as many as 11 civilians and 30 suspected militants in the first 10 days of the year. if confirmed, that would mean a death ratio of more than one civilian for every three suspected militants. it would also already exceed the official civilian death toll for 2012,...